Kariîooka

Old Tupi

A 1550s French accounts–based 1660s map by Pierre Duval showing the Kariauc village right under the Tropic line.

Etymology

From kariîó +‎ oka (“house”).

Proper noun

Kariîooka

1. (now historical) a former Carijó village in Guanabara bay, São Vicente captaincy, Brazil
   • 1578, Jean de Léry, chapter XX, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French and Old Tupi), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 352:

     F Mamo-pè ſetam?
     T Kariauh-bè

     [F[rançoys] Mamõpe setama?
     T[upinambá] Kariîo[oky]pe]

     Frenchman: Where is their residence?
     Tupinambá: In Kariîooka.

   • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, “Na feſta de .ſ. L^ço” (chapter XLIV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ], Niterói, page 63, lines 142–151; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 117:

     Maene, Tupinãba
     Paraguaçupe ndaroera,
     ytupã ocibae puera
     opacatu yamomba
     nitibetei çembiroera
     Yaupa Moçupiroca,
     Yequej, guatapitiba,
     Nheterõya, Paraiba
     Guayayo, Carijo oca
     Pacucaya, Araçatiba.

     [Ma'ẽne, tupinambá / Paragûasupendarûera / i tupãokyba'epûera / opakatu îamombá / n'i tybetéî sembyrûera / îa'upá Mosupyroka, / Îekeí, Gûatapytyba, / Nheterõîa, Paraíba, / Guaîaîó, Kariîooka, / Pakukaîa[,] Arasatyba.]

     Look, the Tupinambás who were in Paraguaçu and had their churches, we destroyed them all. Not even their remains are left. We devoured everyone at Moçupiroca, Jequeí, Guatapitiba, Niterói, Paraíba, Guajajó, Carioca, Pacucaia, Araçatiba.

2. Carioca (a river in Guanabara bay, São Vicente captaincy, Brazil)

Descendants

• → Brazilian Portuguese: carioca
  • → English: Carioca

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Carioca”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 555, column 2